Curtains and window dressings for this time of year can be quite difficult to judge. There’s the wonderful prospect of bright and unbroken sunshine – something we all love to think about when the winter’s upon us and we’re skulking around in the gloom of […]
I have recently been thinking about how to update the soft furnishings in my two spare bedrooms. Looking around, I can’t help noticing that my neighbours all seem to have updated theirs in recent years. I still have the same fairly safe, bland shades […]
I was out to lunch over easter – a rare treat these days. My hosts were young and still in the first flush of youthful love and nest building. In their ‘forever’ home after only 5 years together but still very smitten with each other […]
There will always be essential classics in a lifetime. Given that we are able to buy what we like when we like and not have to save up for anything, making something really special for a gift is getting more difficult as we go along. […]
When you think about your home and all the furniture and effects you’ve collected over the years, it can take a while to get your head around the need to update and decorate. When I moved to my current place, some twenty years ago, everything […]
Home is certainly where the heart is – how often has that come to mind over the long weeks of this global pandemic. However, in every situtation life throws up at us, we can find the positives and move with those. For example, whilst we’re […]
There is something comforting about matching curtains with soft furnishings…. bedding with window dressing and carpets for example. For some families this is a no-no. The more varied the palette or plainer the window blinds, the happier they are! I am definitely from the […]
There can be nothing nicer than sitting on the sofa, cuppa in hand and just whiling away the time looking at a lifestyle programme or leafing through a magazine. We can get bogged down in everyday tasks very easily and to take a little ‘me […]
Gifting homewares was never at the top of my list of ‘how best to keep buddies’ it has to be said – until younger family members started out renting and then buying homes . . . . That’s when it became a really good idea. […]
When I was growing up we didn’t really know that many families who had more than one home. With the ease of buing abroad, it is not uncommon for a family to have their main everyday property in dear old England, but the holiday home […]
